Epistle of Barnabas 19.10

Anonymous · Epistle of Barnabas · ca. 70–135 (often ca. 130) · place unknown · Read in context

Summary: Remember the judgment; seek the saints; work to save souls or give for your sins.

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Greek text · Lake, LCL 24:404

μνησθήσῃ ἡμέραν κρίσεως νυκτὸς καὶ ἡμέρας, καὶ ἐκζητήσεις καθʼ ἑκάστην ἡμέραν τὰ πρόσωπα τῶν ἁγίων, ἢ διὰ λόγου κοπιῶν καὶ πορευόμενος εἰς τὸ παρακαλέσαι καὶ μελετῶν εἰς τὸ σῶσαι ψυχὴν τῷ λόγῳ, ἢ διὰ τῶν χειρῶν σου ἐργάσῃ εἰς λύτρωσιν ἁμαρτιῶν σου.

English · Claude translation

You shall remember the day of judgment night and day, and you shall seek out every day the company of the saints, either laboring by word and going to exhort and striving to save a soul by the word, or working with your hands for a ransom for your sins.

About this passage

Source: Lake, LCL 24:404 · Kirsopp Lake, ed. and trans., The Apostolic Fathers, vol. 1, LCL 24 (London: Heinemann; New York: Macmillan, 1912), 340–407 · Greek text: K. Lake, The Apostolic Fathers (LCL, 1912), digitized by the Perseus Digital Library and published by the First Thousand Years of Greek project (Open Greek and Latin), CC BY-SA 4.0
Translation: Claude translation (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-26 · Translated by Claude from the Greek text of Lake (LCL 24, 1912); made independently of existing English translations.
Topics: Eschatology, Ethics

Notes

Translation notes

“A ransom for your sins”: giving from one's labor (alms) as atonement for sins, as in Did. 4.6.

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Barn. 19.10 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/barnabas/19/10/).

Plain text

Barn. 19.10 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/barnabas/19/10/).

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